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A09031	A plaine exposition vpon the whole 8. 9. 10. 11. chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sence giuen: and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applyed, for the benefit of Gods children performed with much variety, and conuenient breuitie: being the substance of neere foure yeeres weekedayes sermons.: By Elnathan Parr, Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods Word.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1618 (1618)	STC 19319; ESTC S114074	348,782	462

A PLAINE EXPOSITION VPON the whole 8. 9. 10. 11. Chapters of the Epistle of Saint PAVL to the ROMANS Wherein the Text is diligently and Methodically resolued the sence giuen and many Doctrines thence gathered are by liuely vses Applyed for the benefit of GODS Children Performed with much variety and conuenient breuitie being the substance of neere foure yeeres Weeke-dayes SERMONS By ELNATHAN PARR Bachelor in Diuinity and Preacher of Gods WORD ROM 2.10,11 10. To euery man that doth good shall be glory and honour and peace to the Iew first and also to the Grecian 11. For there is no respect of persons with God NOLI ALTVM SAPERE LONDON Printed by George Purslowe for SAMVEL MAN dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Swanne 1618. TO The very Noble and Religious Gentleman Master Nathaniel Bacon Esquire TO The very Honorable and most worthy Lady the Lady Iane Cornwalleys his wife Grace and Peace be multiplied from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ SIR I PRESENT to your Nobleness these my poore labors which shall be much honoured if you will vouchsafe as gracious an eye to them written as you did a reuerent eare to them vttered by voice As a picture attaines not the life so neither can writing expresse that liuely Energie of the voice which consists in Vtterance and Action the two Ladies of Speech yet as the picture of a friend is much esteemed for the representation so I cannot but hope of your fauourable approuall of the Copy to whom the principal was so acceptable The stile must needs lose something because I haue endeuoured to abbreuiate many things in vvriting which I tooke more liberty in speaking to deliuer And yet I hope that nor I nor my labours shall for this lose with the Iudicious for Timantes a famous Painter as your selfe if any know was the more commended because by his pictures more was to bee vnderstood then vvas expressed As all that knowe your Noblenes haue experience of your Religious mind so haue I also of your deepe iudgement by whom no Author can lose you beeing able and vsing accurately to examine euerie vvord wherein any excellent thing may bee couched If I were able to write learnedly I would vvish such a Reader as I am MADAM I Humbly intreat you with fauour to receiue this fruit of yor owne goodnes If I haue performed any good by my poore labours those which receiue it owe the acknowledgement next vnto God to your Ladiship who haue so watered my studies with your coūtenance and beneficence that euen my Barrennes hath both by preaching and writing yielded some fruit which as it may be profitable to some is cōfortable to my selfe to haue brought forth so I hope it shal somwhat further your Ladiships reckoning at the day of Christ I know you take no pleasure to haue your goodnesse published because you account Vertues fairest Theater to be a good Conscience yet it becomes an ingenuous mind to professe by whom he profiteth And I wish that all the world vnderstood of your Honorable disposition and Christian carriage both in publique and priuate that many more might be prouoked by your Noble example For as in all natiue and infused Graces you immeasurably exceed the painted Sepulchers of these dayes so is your Ladiship in holy knowledge discreet zeale and compassionate charitie a liuely Image of those ancient Heroines commended by Saint Hierom and other Fathers and also by vnerring Writers As Ladies delight not onely to see faire Iewels and curious Needleworks but to take them out and weare them so I can truly testifie that your Ladiships care is not onely to knowe but to expresse and weare the good things you know in your conuersation I earnestly pray for the increase of Gods fatherly blessing vpon your soule and I craue your pardon and the continuance of your fauour to him who acknowledgeth himselfe bound vnto you in all humble obseruance ELNATHAN PARR To the Christian Reader increase of faith and loue GEntle Reader thou hast here the summe of diuers of my Lectures vpon that most comfortable Chapter the 8. to the Romanes and also vpon those three difficult Chapters next following viz. the 9. 10. and 11. wherein I haue endeuoured plainly to open the words diligently to vnfold the Argument briefely to comprise the doctrine and being euidently proued liuelily to apply the same In which Application I haue had a principall respect of these three things namely to comfort the distressed sinner to humble the obstinate and to exhort and prouoke the penitent to more obedience Also those mysterious points of Predestination Reiection of the Iewes Vocation of the Gentiles and Revocation of the Iewes are here soberly and diligently discussed and made plaine Beside diuers dangerous Positions of the Romanists and of Arminius oppugned many other material doubts and questions cleered by the way As I haue laboured to doe thee good so I desire thee not to requite me with euill If in some things thou thinkest otherwise abound in thine owne sence but censure not rashly remembring that it is easier to pluck downe a house then to build one If thou blamest the stile as too homely be perswaded that wise men desire rather a carefull then an eloquent Physician If thou readest therein read to profit thy soule which if thou doe not we are both losers but thou must giue account for both our losses For as for vs we are vnto God a sweet sauour of Christ both in them which profit by our paines in them which profit not That thou mayest profit I commend thee to God to whom also I desire thee to commend this labour and Thy true friend in our common Sauiour Elnathan Parr A briefe summe of the Doctrines handled in this BOOKE CHAP. VIII Doct. 1. THose which are in Christ by Faith shall not be condemned Verse 1. Doct. 2. Our vnion with Christ the cause of our good life Doct. Our vnion with Christ frees vs from the power of sinne and of death Verse 2. Doct. 1. The Law cannot iustifie vs because we cannot perfectly keepe it Verse 3. Doct. 2. Christ came into the world and was incarnate of the Virgin Mary not of his owne will and yet not vnwilling but by the will and Decree of his Father Doct. 3. God by the death of his Sonne on the Crosse in our nature hath so taken away and abolished sinne that it can not rule in vs here nor condemne vs hereafter Doct. Whatsoeuer Christ did concerning the Law is ours by imputation so fully as if our selues had done it Verse 4. Doct. Carnall men and spirituall are contrary Verse 5. Doct. Whatsoeuer the flesh or corruption doth minde or sauour bringeth death so on the contrary for the spirit that is the regenerate part Verse 6. Doct. 1. All vnregenerate men are enemies to God and God to them Verse 7. Doct. 2. The Law of God is the rule of our subiection to

which attaines that righteousnesse which iustifieth in his sight Now this must needes be wonderfull harsh to them which had such confidence in their owne righteousnes as appeareth by that Pharisee and the Ruler spoken of in the Gospel Luke 18.11,12 ibid. v. 21. To be both bereaued of the promises and also to be stript of their holinesse to be left naked before the Iudgement seat of Christ must needs be grieuous This Paul knowing and that they would be not a little incensed against him and hauing experience that such preaching caused him great trouble before he comes to the matter he makes a Preface whereby hee endeuours to asswage their minds and to approue his loue to them that he might take away all preiudicate opinions of him So in this Chapter we haue two parts 1. A Preface ver 1. 2. The matter it selfe in the rest The Preface verse 1. is by insinuation or protestation of his loue in which are two things 1. The Thing protested 2. The Amplification of it The thing protested is his Loue. The Amplification is twofold 1. From the persons to whom he protests loue that is to the Israelites 2. From the Arguments of his loue vvhich are three 1. A friendly cōpellation hee calls them Brethren in regard of the same Country and Nation 2. From a desire of their saluation The word translated hearts desire signifieth two things First to haue a good opinion Secondly to wish well vnto Paul thought wel of them and vvished them well whatsoeuer they thought of him This desire is amplified from the subiect of it his heart It was not a fained glozing loue as is the friendship of the world from the teeth outward but euen from his very heart Thirdly from his prayers for their saluation A singular token of loue This is amplified first from the obiect to whom he prayed To God Secondly from the end or summe of his prayer That they might be saued Q. Why doth Paul pray for thē who haue crucified Christ are enemies to the Gospell and hated and reiected of God A. He intends the general calling of the Iewes of which chap. 11. Or with condition of Gods will or onely of the Elect or to shew his willingnesse to wish well euen to his enemies The obseruations from this verse are from the consideration of Paul as an Apostle or as a Christian doctrine Ob. If we consider him as an Apostle we obserue 1. That Ministers are not only to preach against wicked persons to exhort their people to obedience but also to pray for them as Samuel and Ieremy did 1. Sam. 12.23 Ierem. 13.17 2. When Ministers are to speak of a matter that may distaste they must wisely preuent all offence and grudge by preparing the minds of the hearers and shewing that they speake not out of malice but out of loue and a desire of their saluation So Paul mitigates his reproofes with protestations of his loue and gentlenesse which is no dawbing with vntempered morter Paul dawbed not but had Gods Spirit when he spake to Festus and Agrippa and hauing reprooued the Galathians Chap. 3. He affectionatly declares his loue Chap. 4. As Physicians prepare and Nurses sometimes still their little ones with singing So also must Ministers attempt euery way which may profit their people 3. Paul loues the Iewes but tels them plainly of their faults So must Ministers doe Indeed the way to get peace among men is not to reprooue but this is the way to lose the peace of God and to bring the bloud of our hearers vpon our owne soules 4. The condition of Ministers is miserable The labour is great the care to saue the soules of our hearers yea our own that we may giue vp a good account is infinite the discontents not to be expressed as to spend many sleeplesse nights many teares and sighes for their saluation who raile and reuile vs accounting vs vnworthy to liue But indeed our ioy is in the conscionable discharge of our duty 2. Cor. 2.15 and that wee are a secret succour to God both in them which are saued and in them which perish And for such as receiue the Word with reuerence obeying it we acknowledge that we are neuer able sufficiently to praise God for the ioy wherewith we reioice on their behalfe 1. Thes 3.9 who if they continue then do we liue If we consider Paul a Christian we obserue Obs 1. Though the Iewes seeke PAVLS life in their rage and nothing would haue giuen them more content then his bloud yet hee carries himselfe louing toward them his very speeches no way sauouring of Reuenge Loue thine enemies We are Pharises by nature louing our friends and hating our foes but wee are Christians by Grace and therefore must loue our very enemies and pray for them as our Sauiour both taught and practised Amicos diligere omnium est inimicos vero solorum Christianorum Tertul. ad Scap. cap. 1. Chrysost hom 15. operis impersecti Euery man can loue his friend but onely a godly man can loue his enemy and in this doing we doe our selues more good then our Enemies For Christ gaue vs this commandement not for our enemies sake but for our owne not that they are worthy to be beloued but that malice is too vnworthy and base a thing for vs. This is hard but we must beate downe our stomakes that wee may bee the children of our heauenly Father If then in cold bloud and vpon deliberation though not at the instant of thy passion thou canst so rule thine affection as to loue thine enemy and pray for him doing him good in stead of euill it will be a sweet comfort to thy brest for with our heauenly Father hee is not in the communion of sonnes that is not in the Charitie of Brethren Apud summum Patrem qui non fuerit in charitate fratrum non habebitur in numero filiorum Leo. mag serm 11. de Quadrag 2. Pauls loue was hearty so let thine be be it friend or foe Some after a controuersie is taken vp and ended will promise friendship but vvith a Reseruation of reuenge though it bee seuen yeere after Iudas kissed Christ and betrayed him and Ioab saluted Amasa courteously and slue him Remember thou to meane the truth thou makest shew of 3. Let thy loue appeare in kinde words and salutations as Paul calls the Iewes Brethren yea Lot the Sodomites Gen. 19.7 which condemnes the practice of some who if they bee offended shew that they are possessed either with a dumbe diuell they will not speake or with a rayling Diuell if they speake it shall be in bitternesse with taunts and reproches 4. Pray for them thou louest Thou shalt neuer haue any comfort of his friendship for whom thou doest not pray VERSE 2. For I beare them record that they haue a zeale of God but not according to knowledge THis verse hath not a reason of Pauls loue from